Heatwave City – Upbeat Electronic Music from Edgar Froese

Heatwave City is the opening song of Beyond the Storm by Edgar Froese.

 
Beyond the Storm
Edgar Froese

Beyond the Storm, released in 1995, is a highly recommended collection of Edgar Froese’s solo work spanning over 20 years.

The anthology is a 2-CD compilation of 28 tracks, 16 previously unreleased songs, and 12 re-mixed numbers.
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Edgar Froese
(1944-2015)

. EDGAR W FROESE (website)
. Wikpedia

Edgar Froese was a German artist and electronic music pioneer. He is best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream.

Froese was a vegetarian, didn’t drink alcohol, was a non-smoker, and said he didn’t take drugs. He was married to artist and photographer Monique Froese from 1974 until her death in 2000. Their son Jerome Froese was a member of Tangerine Dream from 1990-2006. Edgar Froese remarried to artist and musician Bianca Acquaye.

Edgar Froese died suddenly in Vienna on January, 20, 2015 from a pulmonary embolism.

Froese was posthumously awarded the Schallwelle Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement (German award for electronic music) in 2015.
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Solo Albums by Edgar Froese include:

• Stuntman
• Beyond the Storm
• Lost in Strings
  (2 CD collection highlighting Froese’s guitar work, published as Tangerine Dream album)

Heatwave City — from the album Beyond the Storm by Edgar Froese